Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.
You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
